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by Adam Holisky 
Jun 2nd 2011 at 11:00AM
Welcome back to The Queue, the daily Q&A column in which the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Adam Holisky, senior facepalming correspondent, will be your host today.Okay Twins, meet me over here in the private corner of The Queue, away from Cutaia, MattK, Grovin, Skarn, and all the other regulars.
/walks over the left
You here? Great. Now, I know that times are tough -- your big guys have been hurt, are hurt, or are just coming off some serious injuries. But 17-37? The worst record in baseball, by far? Let's not do this anymore.
K?
You can go back over there and read or play cards or whatever else it is that you do when you should be practicing. Just don't let Torri Hunter catch you ... Remember what he did in 2006.
Inbred asked:
I have 4000 JPs and 3000 VPs and I know that VP are being converted to JP in 4.2. So, what happens when you're at the JP cap of 4000? Will my VP turn into "Vapor Points", or will the 4000 cap be lifted so that I will have a total of 7000 JPs?
I can't find any official statement from Blizzard on this. However, the "community wisdom" is that you'll have a total of 7,000 justice points. You won't be able to earn any more justice points until your total justice points drops below the 4,000 mark.
Expect a post from Blizzard clarifying this soon™.
Devo_AS asked:
When are we going to get new Guild tabard icons? They are all VERY dated, pixelated and just uninteresting images. For example, why cant Arena team icons be used on tabards to add some variety? Or just some updated versions of the limited choice we have now?
Blizzard hasn't said anything about this, but I agree with you -- they're very dated. My guess is there are other priorities for the art folks. However, they are adding female forms of warlock demons, so who knows ...
Joe asked:
Could we still see epic gems in 4.2, or is it too late by now? Do we know everything about 4.2 by now, save for some class changes yet to come?
While Blizzard is still adding things into the client data files right now, no epic gems or anything that points to them have been added -- and as big of a thing as they'd be, I'd assume they'd already be here if they were. So, my gut is telling me not in 4.2.
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Reader Comments (Page 5 of 10)
Rubitard Jun 2nd 2011 11:50AM
Try growing up under the delusion that the KC Royals are a professional baseball team. Eeesh.
Mortenebra Jun 2nd 2011 11:58AM
I'm from Northern California, too, transplanted to the Midwest. Born a Giants fan and always will be a Giants fan (my parents took me to a game when I was a wee baby... like, 6mo or younger). But as a current Cincinnatian, I have to make some sort of comment on the behalf of the Reds about being shutout with a no-hitter during the playoffs. Talk about embarrassing.
Noyou Jun 2nd 2011 1:53PM
@Grove
Buddy. Shhh. Exnae on the ubscae. After watching the Bulls collapse against the Heat I can't bring myself to watch that mess. I probably will tune in to see them play the Sox and question my sanity. If you don't believe in curses just check out their history the last 103 years. /cries.
Bynde Jun 2nd 2011 2:25PM
Another long-suffering Cubs fan? Me too.
Misery does love company, you know.
DeathPaladin Jun 2nd 2011 11:18AM
The Twins should just do whatever the Red Sox did to get out of the basement.
Random unexpected winning streaks somehow help one's standing in the league.
joff_graham Jun 2nd 2011 11:19AM
The moment they add epic gems, they're going to have to update the profession bonuses. The blacksmith bonus (2 extra gem sockets) will be overpowered in comparison to the other professions (which are generally +80 of a desirable stat), while the JC profession bonus will be UNDERpowered since the chimeric eye won't be as powerful compared to an epic gem.
I don't see any of this coming through the PTR at the moment, and there'd be a heck of a dance to get all that right. In fact, the whole mess may even point towards no epic gems at all this expansion, as unpalatable as that may sound.
Bapo Jun 2nd 2011 11:37AM
They could always buff chimera eye. And that's how it was in wrath with BS. People took BS / JC because you got the best gems, and you got 2 extra bonuses.
Or epic gems could just be like, +50 to a stat (Idk what the current stats actually are on chimera eyes)
georgeb.fleming Jun 2nd 2011 11:34AM
Please people, stop asking so many questions about VP/JP. Every day with this. Stop trying to game the system, just spend your points. When it rolls over do your dailies/raids and get more.
loop_not_defined Jun 2nd 2011 11:41AM
WoW is nothing if not gaming a system. ;)
Telwar Jun 2nd 2011 12:01PM
Personally, I'm looking forward to buying the boe boots for all of my alts, as otherwise I have nothing useful to buy on my rogue.
Amaxe Jun 2nd 2011 12:32PM
"Please people, stop asking so many questions about VP/JP."
OK, understood.
Now, can anyone tell me about how the VP/JP conversion will work?
/flees the mob
raingod Jun 2nd 2011 11:41AM
Hey if the Diamondbacks can be the first team in major league history to gain sole possession of first place in their league or division during May after entering the month at least 6 1/2 games out of first there's hope for everyone.
Even the Twins.
(cutaia) Jun 2nd 2011 11:43AM
Question for the queue:
Can you ask Blizzard to make phase 3, 25-man, heroic Anub'arak stop sucking so much for level 85s?
*cries thinking about last night's wipe-fest*
niko Jun 2nd 2011 11:59AM
Agreed. This fight is nigh-impossible with stamina values being what they are @85. I don't think 10's are quite possible either.
Grossly more difficult than a heroic LK fight.
Red Hawk Jun 2nd 2011 12:19PM
I've done a 10s Heroic at 85, our dps did manage to stay ahead of the game, and iirc we ended up having to do an extra 40% of his health as damage because of the healing.
I did some napkin maths on it, tho maybe cutatia can elaborate more, and i estimated, based on the dps we were doing at the time of that kill, to get the kill on 25 we'd have had to have basically done 3x his health pool in order to have killed him.
Don't happen to have a WoL or similar by chance?
Metalupis Jun 2nd 2011 12:35PM
My guild actually just did 10 heroic the other night, yeah it was an annoying wipefest, I think it would actually be easier if you don't bring in a full raid, you can do the necessary dps with fewer people and that will also reduce the amount of healing he is getting
Idaelus Jun 2nd 2011 1:05PM
Wow, I don't know if I could handle another round of crying about nerfs to outdatded content.
Wait, yes I can!
(Hope you get him down (cutaia)!)
paraka321 Jun 2nd 2011 1:40PM
We've done this a few times at 85. Our healers don't heal anyone except the tank(s). Throw a frost resist if you have it. Any self healing class (warlocks / shadow priests) will manage through this phase just fine. Anyone that can sacrifice life at the start of the phase should (life tap, SW:D, etc). (Can you tell which classes I run with a lot?) And if possible, we tell our healers not to heal through any damage on the dps throughout the fight. This helps the transition to P3.
Sure it's still hard. Plan ahead.
Fweet Jun 2nd 2011 11:47AM
Q for the Q:
Are we running out of good questions for you guys?
zach.l Jun 2nd 2011 11:48AM
if a gamemaster had a ticket from a person who belongs to his guild when hes not a gamemaster is he allowed to answer it or would it be moved to another person?